See slick in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "This rain is making the roads slick.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "The top coating of lacquer gives this finish a slick look.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "His large round head was shaved slick.",
"type": "example"
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"sense": "slippery due to a covering of liquid",
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"sense": "slippery due to a covering of liquid",
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},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 1 1 1 1",
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"sense": "slippery due to a covering of liquid",
"word": "glitschig"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 1 1 1 1",
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"sense": "slippery due to a covering of liquid",
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"sense": "slippery due to a covering of liquid",
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"sense": "slippery due to a covering of liquid",
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"text": "Both slick and dainty.",
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"Sleek; smooth."
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"text": "They read all kinds of slick magazines.",
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"word": "лъскав"
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{
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "appearing expensive or sophisticated",
"word": "gekonnt"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 91 1 4 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "appearing expensive or sophisticated",
"word": "elegáns"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 91 1 4 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "appearing expensive or sophisticated",
"word": "tipp-topp"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 91 1 4 0",
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"word": "elegante"
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{
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"sense": "appearing expensive or sophisticated",
"word": "pulido"
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{
"_dis1": "2 3 91 1 4 0",
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"text": "That new sales rep is slick. Be sure to read the fine print before you buy anything.",
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"ref": "2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian:",
"text": "The threat the most radical of them pose is evidently far greater at home than abroad: in one characteristically slick and chilling Isis video – entitled “a message to the Jordanian tyrant” – a smiling, long-haired young man in black pats the explosive belt round his waist as he burns his passport and his fellow fighters praise the memory of Zarqawi, who was killed in Iraq in 2006.",
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"roman": "povǎrhnosten",
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"word": "повърхностен"
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"word": "lipevä"
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{
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy",
"word": "schlau"
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"sense": "superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy",
"word": "dörzsölt"
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"sense": "superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy",
"word": "falso"
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"sense": "superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy",
"word": "ско́льзкий"
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"roman": "xítryj",
"sense": "superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy",
"word": "хи́трый"
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"word": "kurnazca"
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"text": "Our new process for extracting needles from haystacks is extremely slick.",
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{
"text": "That was a slick move, locking your keys in the car.",
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},
{
"ref": "2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 55:",
"text": "I leave the train at Salisbury, where (in a very slick operation) another two-car set is added to the front of the train before it heads for London.",
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"(often sarcastic) Clever, making an apparently hard task easy."
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"word": "taitava"
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{
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"word": "ügyes"
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"word": "hatékony"
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"word": "scaltro"
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"word": "ло́вкий"
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"text": "That is one slick bicycle: it has all sorts of features!",
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"word": "raffiniert"
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{
"_dis1": "8 7 2 3 20 60",
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"word": "schlau"
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{
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"sense": "(US West Coast slang) extraordinarily great or special",
"word": "klassz"
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{
"_dis1": "8 7 2 3 20 60",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "(US West Coast slang) extraordinarily great or special",
"word": "szuper"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 7 2 3 20 60",
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"sense": "(US West Coast slang) extraordinarily great or special",
"word": "schyst"
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{
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"sense": "(US West Coast slang) extraordinarily great or special",
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{
"text": "Careful in turn three — there's an oil slick on the road.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "The oil slick has now spread to cover the entire bay, critically endangering the sea life.",
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}
],
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"_dis1": "89 3 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "ca",
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"sense": "covering of liquid, particularly oil",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "marea negra"
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{
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"sense": "covering of liquid, particularly oil",
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"sense": "covering of liquid, particularly oil",
"word": "öljyläikkä"
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{
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "covering of liquid, particularly oil",
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